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Friday
Iowa Rain Out Causes Pit Crew Problems
On a normal NASCAR weekend when the Truck Series and/or Nationwide Series run companion to the Cup cars, there are a lot of pit crew members who double or triple dip. Crew members make some extra cash and get more reps, and the teams get top talent pitting their cars. But this last weekend presented [...] 
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Thursday
Wednesday
Driver in car crash that killed Paul Walker drove in the Pirelli World Challenge
Fast and the Furious actor Paul Walker was killed in a car crash on Saturday and the driver of the car was Roger Rodas, who has driven in the Pirelli World Challenge.
Rodas and Walker were Porsche enthusiasts and owned Rodas' race team, Always Evolving, together. The Porsche Carrera GT they were in crashed after they drove the car from a charity event. Authorities said that when they arrived, the car was engulfed in flames.
?Him and his buddy, his brother in arms at heart, just decided to joyride, take a spin," Antonio Holmes, a friend of Walker's who was at the event, told the Santa Clarita Valley Signal. "Something we all do. We're all car enthusiasts. ... We?re all here driving, enjoying each other, and God must?ve needed help."
Rodas drove in the GTS Series this season in the Pirelli World Challenge with and finished second in the Porsche Drivers Cup Series last year with two wins for Always Evolving, the team that he and Walker started per his bio on the PWC site, Rodas was a wealth adviser for Merrill Lynch.
This year in the PWC GTS Series, he was 13th in the points standings and competed in 10 of the series' 14 races. His highest finish was fifth place at Toronto.
The Sports Car Club of America is the largest amateur motorsports club in the United States and throughout its series it is a mixture of drivers who have another career (like Rodas) or who have made driving their primary endeavor. The PWC is sanctioned by the SCCA Pro Series and "The purpose of Pirelli World Challenge Championships is to provide teams, manufacturers and aftermarket suppliers a competitive production-based race series in which to prove their products."
The road racing series runs on weekends at tracks with larger series. The 2014 PWC season will kick off at St. Petersburg, the same weekend as the IndyCar Series' season-opening race of the season.
Rodas was friends with Los Angeles Clippers PG Chris Paul and the Asomugha Foundation, started by NFL defensive back Nnamdi Asomugha, was one of the foundations that Always Evolving supported.
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Tuesday
Dale Earnhardt Jr. finishes second behind that pesky Jimmie Johnson
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The national crisis that would be a winless 2013 Sprint Cup Series season for Dale Earnhardt Jr. almost came to an end once again Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.
Jimmie Johnson just got in the way. Again.
For the third time this season, Junior finished second to Johnson. It happened in the first race of the season at Daytona, at Dover in September and Sunday, as Junior, nor anyone else, could come close to the speed that Johnson and his team had.
Johnson led 255 of the race's 334 laps. But Junior, who started seventh, was also up front for nearly the entire day.
"The Chicago deal is regrettable," Junior said. "We'd love to go back and do that over again, but as soon as that happened, we really changed our aproach and it was more about trying to win a race."
"Winning a race would really lift all the team's spirits. You work all season long not to go winless and not getting to go to victory lane. So I know how much the guys want the win on the team, so that's what we're working for now."
The Chicago deal that he refers to is when he blew an engine in the Chase's opening race, which left him 53 points out of the lead. Now, with two races remaining, Junior's only lost nine additional points to the lead, thanks to six top 10s in the succeeding seven races.
But there's still that win lingering. After winning at Michigan last year to break a four year winless drought, Junior's too close to have another streak like that, right?
"I think it's a matter of being close. You know, it's not -- we're not running second by making mistakes," he said. "We're not giving away wins. So I feel like we're just really getting close to cracking through and just trying to maintain the momentum with two races to go is going to be tough. But that's what we're focusing on."
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